An insightful analysis of the age of the internet dominated by Google. Below is the web link to the programme where it is available for listening until 21st December 2009:
BBC Radio 4 – Defining the Decade, A Googling We Go 15th December 2009
As a new decade is coming near, we could not help but wonder what we have done and what we have experienced in the past ten years. So much of what the world has done in the last ten years has to be carried out via a screen, a keyboard, and the internet.
The programme recollects memories and interviews key e-entrepreneurs, Google employees as well as ordinary internet users who witnessed events and symbols that outline the growth and maturing of the internet since 1999: the millennium bug, the dot-com boom and bust, blogging, and Facebook. It touches upon topics such as the explosion of information that calls for powerful search engines, the internet as an extension of the real world, the internet censorship in China, the balance between sharing and protecting creativity, and our alarming yet growing dependence on machines to process information for us.
K.C.
